POETRY FOR 30 DAYS IN APRIL DAY 1

Project Details Hello friend, I am Timothy Kimo Brien, head instigator at Create Art Podcast where we help you to tame the inner critic and create more than we consume. Every year in April National Poetry Writing Month occurs, this is a challenge to write 30 poems in 30 days and comes from the NaPoWriMo site. When you participate you are given a prompt every day for 30 days and you can choose to follow the prompt or not. Each prompt has a commentary with it and a style of poetry that you may not be familiar with. I enjoy it because it stretches my creative muscles and helps me organize my thoughts. I also really enjoy a good challenge. There is also an opportunity to read other people's work as they post on their websites and for you to comment on their work, giving them encouragement or offering a suggestion. Care to join me on this journey? Day 1 Prompt Sometimes, writing poetry is a matter of getting outside of your own head, and learning to see the world in a new way. To an extent, you have to “derange” yourself – make the world strange, and see it as a stranger might. To help you do that, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem inspired by this animated version of “Seductive Fantasy” by Sun Ra and his Arkestra. If you don’t feel after watching it a little bit like the top of your head’s been taken off, and your thoughts given a good stir – well, maybe you are already living in a state of heightened poetic awareness! Happy writing, everyone! Day 1 Poem If Only A Day 1.       Legs It’s the wind that lifts you to walk on your toes Sprinting is the speed needed to take you everywhere you go No longer trying to understand why your King binds your feet every night All you know is the stretching of your calves and ankles while you dream The aches that come in the morning Hoping that the braces are forgotten for a days repast One day, breaking free from the restraints And flying back to whence you have come 2.       Arms Your wings are masked as the limbs of a girl Only you know their true composition Instinct demands their exercise So you flap them, trying to fulfill their purpose Why can’t people see what they really are Is still a mystery to you So you play ignorant as to why you flap Its just something you do When something important strikes you The mental computer appears just for you To mark these events so you can revisit them You are the author of your own future 3.       Eyes When the world is too much When everything comes at you at the same time Your eyes roll back to protect yourself To see your memories To see your true home To see inside your own thoughts The quick shallow breaths coincide with your eyes The perfect shade of the sky on a cloudless day Sparkling when you see Papa Tearing up when no one understands your ways 4.       Face Every time I blink or rest for an evening I see your smile straining to reach from one side to the other Your cheeks bulge out and are filled with breath Your eyes squint trying not to let too much in Its as if your whole face must participate With any utterance of emotion My definition of happiness no longer contains words Just images of the contours and lines and folds of your skin You, fully embracing whatever emotion strikes 5.       Voice If I was deaf, I’d still understand you The force of your words passes through my apathetic soul When you read and your pitch raises a half octave Its because you want me to know the performance has started And when the words come that you don't know or don’t recall Stubbornly you push through and repeat them until they are mastered Creating songs out of air about love comes naturally for you As the wind is your mother And your breath is your father 6.       Mind Since you were born I have tried to fill you with light, beauty, positivity and love Banishing my demons and the creatures that lurk behind these windows You seem to know of their existence And you try to reach through to calm me It is the touch that I fear most Not wanting you to be infected by their ravenous hunger With a word or a look or a fierce hug You attempt to strangle them and free my soul To escape the bonds that keep me chained to the ground Oh to be like you again and to warn of what it is to be me This is every day with you And one day you will drag me away To live inside your thoughts And know innocence again Reaching Out To reach out to me, email [email protected] I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and lets start that conversation. Email: [email protected] YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Mighty Networks: Create Art Podcast This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy